My Orc butchers every Thalmor agent he sees.

My Bosmer butchers every Thalmor agent he sees.

My Nord makes Mjoll butcher every Thalmor agent he sees.

My Redguard butchers every Thalmor agent he sees.

My other Nord roasts every Thalmor agent she sees.

My other Redguard butchers every Thalmor agent she sees.

Yeah, I'd say all of my characters are murderers.

Try this mod, it'll set most npc's to non-essential.

http://www.skyrimnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=2570

LOL! This.

My battlemage is pretty evil and has killed his fair share of NPCs that have pushed him around or ticked him off. My rogue is a mercenary and thief but tries not to kill innocents, though 2 cases have happened where he killed civilians because they attacked him.

Also I think RP'ing a good guy in this game is pretty unrewarding... Unlike D&D games such as Neverwinter Nights and Baldur's Gate.

<sub>Usually I wait till they attack me before I start killing. Really hard for me to sneak and get a criticial when they don't attack first. So now I just wait till the first one attacks, then it's all fair game since they are they are all the same, and always wanted to kill me.

Now if there was a way to make each of them as individuals and instead of Star Wars Stormtroopers (actually read an interesting read about why Stormtroopers miss all the time ) then it would be harder to kill all the bandits in a cave or what not. So much more easier to kill a Storm Trooper than an actual character.</sub>

The Stormtrooper/Ninja Effect. The more evil the character is, the worse they get. The more of them there are, the more terrible they are.

"Hey, Bill, you know that Emperor guy?"
"Yeah?"
"Ever since he took power, my aim's gone to [censored]."
"And Dave got shot in the foot and died."
"The hell? He got his arm ripped off by a droid when the Jedi were around."
"I know, man."

And if there are 20 ninjas, they'll get their asses smacked around by ONE lone warrior, because they all attack one at a time.

"Alright, welcome to Evil Ninja Academy. First lesson: Circle around the lone warrior, making menacing poses and swinging your swords around. BUT DON'T ATTACK."
"Whuh?"
"Yes, only one of you should attack at a time. When that first one is inevitably killed, the one who's circling closest to the warrior should then attack."
"[censored] this. I'm going home."

muder no, assasin yes

best not piss of the Thalmor on your interhold trekking. Or bring a boatload of healing potions if you want to commit suicide. While traveling in sneak mode, I witnessed an interesting spectacle of 3 Thalmor escorting a Strom cloak prisoner to be tortured somewhere. I was contemplating ways on freeing the prisoner, when one of Alduin's homeboys decided to do swoop in and do some gang banging. The 2 thalmor guards mounted a most unimpressive defense. Some five seconds into the battle, the dragon ragdolled one of the Thalmor guards against a large bolder with a single bite. Then it bludgeoned the 2nd guard into pulp with its tail. This left the head Thalmor Justicar to single handedly take on an elder dragon with a large degree of heartburn. But that Thalmor witch had some seriously mad magicka skills though. She took on a spectacular amount of fire damage from Alduin's home boy before deciding to date Sithis. Then the dragon flew off in search of better ways to entertain itself. The Stormcloak prisoner flew in the other direction. Problem resolved. I wish I got the opportunity to interact with him though. It would've been nice to share some of the spoils of battle.

My serial killer is in the SIMS... over 100 urns in a hidden room in the attic and counting... I've started to go on killing sprees a couple times in this game, but I end up restarting because I'm too scared to make someone vital to the story mad at me so they refuse to help me... Some dude in Oblivion was like that... he sold something I needed, but he hated me after I screwed up a quest or something... I can't remember the details, but I remember the lesson I learned

People get too uptight over a game.

TBO if you are that uptight about it, how can you even play it? Look at most of the quests in this game....most involve killing. In game is killing a murderer OK because they have killed? Does that mean you agree with the death penalty in real life? Then there are the little faction conflicts. Companions vs Silverhand. Neither side is really evil as far as I can tell. The silverhand kill werewolves and since werewolves are considered evil, that would make the silverhand good guys. Yet the companions seem to help people and don't use their infliction for evil deeds, so that too would make them good guys. Then there is the Empire vs Stormcloaks. Now I'm not talking about the higher ups but instead the soldiers who are simply following orders. Non of them are really bad guys. I'm sure you can see them as having a family.

Yet, just how innocent are the npc's? Well, for a real life label, they are neither since they are not real. But game wise, I've had goons try and kill me. Who hired them? Some kid girl in Solitude. The reason? because I stole from her and her mom. So they, the npc's, are willing to sentence you to death over a theft no matter how petty? Not so innocent to me...my response, kill the mom and leave her an orphan. Even if the game doesn't recognize it.

Now, I've played a Khajiit assassin from the start. Duel daggers, light armor (top tier Nightingale currently), maxed stealth with every perk maxed out in that tree. I only usually kill when I'm "hired" to (quests), when it's personal (goons), and under other exceptional circumstances (a certain individual's dying wish).

Of course I do, from time to time, complete quests in a most sinister and murderous fashion. Some examples..

Role-players have been listening to garbage like this since Dallas Egbert disappeared.

If I murder an NPC in Skyrim, it's not releasing my own urge to murder. I have no desire to murder anyone. I'm role-playing. I'm capable of recognizing the line between real life and what happens in a video game. That you're applying your own values to your role-played character suggests an inability on your part to make that same distinction. Which of us is stranger?

I think this video has message in the end of it for all the hypocrites out there. http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/00d8bf6a82/christmas-greetings-from-the-franco-s

Well, my point is that the world of Skyrim is no Neverland where Peter and his pansy fellows can eat candy all day long. It is easy to get yourself killed in Skyrim. Let's think for a second about history and middle age (I think this period of time is closest to Skyrim). Life was pretty cheap in those days and hell, still is in the third world countries and [censored] and theft was not unknown. And those knights in shiny armor were no different. World has been and still is full of honest and good people trying to get by but end up in wrong place in the wrong time, so why shouldn't Skyrim? There's nothing wrong playing a honest and maybe naive paladin like peace loving ultimate hero fighting for the poor and needy and justice. And more so nothing wrong playing the opposite. For myself I have to reason out every killing/murder I do. And the guy in the OP clearly has figured it out for himself. If you start to moralize killing in a game then I must presume you are playing a somesort of priest/monk who abstains of all violence. I mean honor in killing? That is absurd. Of course there has been laws, standards and codes of honor, since Code of Hammurabi, but relying on such didn't get you far in life. Ask Eddard Stark. There is no difference in murder and killing. Of course my character thinks differently and justifies every killing but he is not here acting as moral guard.

Little provocative maybe, but I don't mean to offend anyone. I wan't everyone to enjoy the game the way they wan't to play it. And I think OP has an amazing character! Although I don't think I could play that style myself. Like someone said it's just a game.

This is why i think that Dovakhiin is the truly Alduin....Mind blow.

My primary characters are good (sorta), but I did create a few that were scumbags (mostly), just to experience the other side of the coin and see what the developers put together. My good characters are advancing. My bad ones aren't very much. There's little motivation to actually be a murderer, excepting DB contracts. Roleplaying a psychopath could be one, but it gets boring after a while.

[rant] Games today are saturated with the KILL KILL KILL DIE DIE DIE mentality. Not to mention that MMOs have their "gankers" whose sole pleasure is to kill lowbies and drink up the RL tears that follow. [/rant]

For me personally, I'm more of an adventurer / explorer type. Give me a huge map, and I'll spend hours roaming around. I live in the big city and work at a desk. I take a lot for granted, but I'm kind of forced to. I'd love to live an adventurer's life. I think I would thrive, even in a hostile environment.

OP is the reason right wing senators on a yearly basis come forward claiming that video games are terrorist training tools/murder simulators/sixual depravity devices

I consider my character to be a pretty decent guy but he has to pay the bills.
He tries not to think about all the families of the bandits that he kills on a regular basis while looting temples and dungeons that they claimed first.
Anyone that thinks their character isnt a murderer is fooling themselves. Unless you play an Alchemist or blacksmith who does nothing but stay in town you're going to come across a dungeon or a camp that you could've walked on buy, but most wont. How can anyone really judge when killing is damn near 90% of the game. To each his own.

How about RPing a Goodie 2 shoes murderer?

Thats not Murder, its a soultion!

I'd think a professional assassin on the level of the Dark Brotherhood would be a little more discerning. But that's the great thing about RPG's, you can play it the way you see fit.

I play as a vampire necromancer battlemage like class. He kills for pleasure and to feed. He enjoys murder and the rending of flesh: he is disturbed Know, I created him.

But that brings up a good point. Most of our characters are probably murderer's depending on who you ask (in the game world). I mean, my good hearted character is probably a folk hero to Nords because she dispatches the Imperial and Thalmor oppressors. Because she's bravely battling monsters that rob good honest hardworking folk of thier freedom of religion. dragging them away from their beds in the middle of the night.

OR...........if you ask Thalmors or Imperial sympathizers, she's a cold blooded criminal executing honorable brave soldiers who are only doing their duty, putting their lives on the line.

It's that way IRL too. Labels like hero, soldier, martyr, terrorist are all depended on the perspective of the one giving said label.

The OP's character would be an exception. She sees herself as a murderer and revels in it. My character, Annick, does not even though she's killed scores of people. True most were in self defense and fair combat but what about the Imperial soldiers that were simply doing their duty transporting a Stormcloack soldier? Annick killed them all to free that prisoner even though they would have done her no harm.

Depending on one's perspective she could be seen as a heroine or a vicious murderer.

In this world and in Skyrim most people are the hero of their own story.

I get your point but......yeah f**k that sh**. There are lines I won't cross and kid killing for fun, or purchasing a game that makes it possible, is one of them.

I'd be in favor of kid's dying for realism (dragon attacks or battles in a town) for I would find it upsetting hence immersive. But the option for the PLAYER to kill a kid? Naw f**k that.

I've never been a fan of murder.

Never played dark brotherhood in any of the games, and I simply cannot play evil characters.
I simply cannot enjoy the idea of either causing unecessary pain for my own gain, or causing harm for fun.

Perhaps I roleplay too hard...

Not a murderer, but a racist. Still trying to figure out which side to choose in the war since my last playthrough got fubared. Still hates Altmer. Kills Thalmor on sight -- kills the mage first. Doesn't stop to talk. Doesn't free the prisoner. Just kills the mage, then the guards. Prisoner runs off. We are at war.